Cashgate Convicts Namata gets 8 years, Kasamba gets 4 years
The High Court in Lilongwe has given two Cash gate convicts Maxwell Namata and Luke Kasamba custodial sentences despite returning the stolen money.
Judge Justice Anabel Mtalimanja has sentenced Namata to eight years imprisonment with hard labour and co-accused Kasamba has been sentenced to four years imprisonment with hard labour.
Namata and Kasamba were convicted after being found guilty to encashment of two government cheques totaling K24.1million through Cross Marketing Limited, a company owned by Kasamba.
The two through lawyer Raphael Kasambara told the court during sentencing submissions that they have made a restitution of the money they defrauded government. Namata resituated K14 million in cash while Kasamba returned K4 million and a truck valued by
defence at K9 million.
Namata and Kasamba are the fourth convicted cashgate convicts to get custodial sentences since commencement of cash gate prosecution.
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